Seoul, Aug 2 — The South Korean Navy's 3,100-ton frigate Daejeon has won the top honour at a live-fire gunnery competition held during this year's Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, the service said on Sunday.The ROKS Daejeon scored the highest points among 13 warships from 10 countries that…
New Delhi, Aug 2 — Decades of neglect in the Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) is snowballing into a movement that may have similarities with the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, according to a media report.The region recently came into the spotlight following police crackdown against civilian…
Islamabad, Aug 2 — The recent coal mine tragedy in the Spin Karez area of Quetta in Pakistan's Balochistan, which claimed the lives of 34 miners, has once again ripped open the hazards of the country's mining industry, according to a local media report.The workers were reportedly several thousand…
Tehran, Aug 2 — Iran's Acting Defence Minister Seyed Majid Ebn Al-Reza said Sunday that Tehran perceives every "enemy" threat as "real and noteworthy," rejecting any characterisation of them as mere psychological warfare."We will neither be surprised nor remain passive. We use threats as a basis to…
Beijing, Aug 2 — China's Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress should not be seen as a legal legislative instrument, but as a constitutional expression of Chinese President Xi Jinping's political vision, where national unity is preferred over a differentiated economy and where the state tries…
Islamabad, Aug 2 — The unrest in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) unfolds as Islamabad is experiencing persistent instability in Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Pakistan-occupied Gilgit-Baltistan (PoGB), making it part of a wider debate over governance, political representation, and human…
Kabul, Aug 2 — Nearly 140,000 undocumented Afghan migrants have been deported to Afghanistan from Pakistan's Punjab province as part of its campaign against foreign nationals who do not have legal residency documents, local media reported, citing provincial authorities. Punjab's Home Department…
Quetta, Aug 2 — A leading human rights organisation has criticised Pakistani authorities for the military siege and curfew in Noshki district of Pakistan's Balochistan, terming it a "continuation of the state's policy of collectively punishing the Baloch people". It urged the international…
Rome, Aug 2 — A meeting of European Union (EU) Interior Ministers on the emergency migrant crisis going on in Spain's Ceuta enclave has been convened for Tuesday.The meeting was requested in a letter signed by 22 European countries, led by Italy and Denmark, but without France and Portugal, the two…
New Delhi, Aug 2 — The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has sent a strong message to China with the recent events at the 16th Foreign Ministers’ Meeting of the East Asia Summit (EAS), a forum for strategic, political, and economic dialogue comprising 19 countries in Manila, according…
New Delhi, Aug 2 — Pakistan and Bangladesh are among the Asian economies most exposed to the fallout from the prolonged US-Iran conflict, as surging global oil prices threaten to push up inflation, strain public finances and intensify pressure on already fragile economies, according to economists…
Jakarta, Aug 2 — Five people were killed, and 41 others remained missing after the Mutiara Santosa 2 caught fire in the Java Sea north of Madura Island in Indonesia's East Java province, the National Search and Rescue Agency said Sunday.A total of 225 people had been evacuated, the agency said.The…
Beijing, Aug 2 — China's ruling Communist Party has been growing at a slower pace, its members are ageing, and the demographic profile of its members demonstrates the structural challenges faced by Chinese society, as per a report. According to the data released by the Communist Party's…
Islamabad, Aug 2 — Pakistan has remained a beneficiary of the European Union's (EU) GSP+ scheme despite its security forces allegedly firing on peaceful protesters, imposing communication blackouts, conducting mass arrests and denying entry to journalists in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), a…
Sydney, Aug 2 — A 25-year-old man was charged after he allegedly assaulted a police officer in Yeronga, a suburb in the city of Brisbane in Australia, on Saturday night, according to a statement released by the Queensland Police Service (QPS) on Sunday. QPS said officers were initially called to…
New Delhi, July 2 — The deployment of AI in China is progressing at a much faster pace, triggering concerns of more job losses in an uncertain labour market, a media report said.Taxi drivers in Wuhan were rendered jobless as driverless cabs were rolled out in the city. There was some relief, and…
Washington, Aug 2 — The recent killings in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) are not an isolated collapse of Pakistan's authority but instead reflect the functioning of a political system that survives by denying people in the occupied region meaningful control over their political and economic…
Washington, Aug 2 — India's Ambassador to the US, Vinay Kwatra, has said that the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) was signed in a spirit of goodwill and friendship in 1960, but Pakistan spent 50 years dismantling this, and its abeyance "merely acknowledges what Pakistan's conduct had already destroyed".…
New Delhi, Aug 2 — An India-funded housing initiative is emerging as a key pillar of Sri Lanka’s efforts to improve living conditions for underprivileged families and strengthen long-standing bilateral ties, according to a report.According to a report by ‘Ceylon News 24 News Web’, the latest phase…
Islamabad, Aug 2 — Zubair Baloch, the brother of gangster Uzair Baloch, was seriously injured after unidentified assailants attacked him in the Lyari area of Pakistan's Karachi, local media reported, citing police. Two passersby were also injured in the attack that took place on Chakiwara Road in…
Kabul, Aug 2 — Afghan security forces have thwarted a firearms smuggling attempt and seized a cache of 24 assault rifles of various types in eastern Nangarhar province, the provincial government announced in a statement on Sunday. The contraband weapons were being smuggled into Afghanistan from a…